Over to You

Synopsis

Background

Over to You brings together 10 of Roald Dahl's earliest stories, many of them set during the Second World War and drawing on his own experiences as a fighter pilot. It includes his first paid piece of writing, the short story A Piece of Cake, which was originally published in 1942 in American magazine The Saturday Evening Post under the title Shot Down Over Libya.

The 10 stories featured are:

Death of an Old, Old Man

An African Story

A Piece of Cake

Madame Rosette

Katina

Yesterday Was Beautiful

They Shall Not Grow Old

Beware of the Dog

Only This

Someone Like You

Find out more about the period in Roald Dahl's life during which Over To You was published